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• Nikola Vucevic Contract Buyout With Bulls More Likely Than Trade
The Chicago Bulls are actively working towards getting younger while limiting their cap spending. They dealt DeMar DeRozan last July, traded Zach LaVine midseason, and sent Lonzo Ball to the Cleveland Cavaliers this offseason for Isaac Okoro. Bulls Have No Trade Market For Nikola Vucevic Nikola Vucevic, who turns 35 in October, is the oldest […] The post Nikola Vucevic Contract Buyout With B...2025Visit the page Nikola Vucevic breaking news
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• Cavs Rumors: Depth Chart, Lonzo Ball, Dean WadeDepth should again be a strength for the Cavaliers next season, yes, even with the loss of Ty Jerome, wrote Jackson Flickinger of Fear The Sword. As you know, the Cavs lost Jerome to Memphis in free agency and Isaac Okoro to Chicago in the Lonzo Ball trade. Cleveland’s two big additions were Ball and […] The post Cavs Rumors: Depth Chart, Lonzo Ball, Dean Wade appeared first on Hoops W...2025Read about Dean Wade news today
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• Why Cavs-Bulls Trade Of Isaac Okoro And Lonzo Ball Required A Special ExceptionWhen the Chicago Bulls acquired Isaac Okoro from the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Lonzo Ball earlier this month, they couldn’t simply use Ball’s $10 million salary for matching purposes, as noted by Keith Smith of Spotrac. Instead, Chicago had to tap into the $17 million+ trade exception it previously generated in the Zach LaVine […] The post Why Cavs-Bulls Trade Of Isaac Okoro And Lo...2025See more articles Chicago Bulls headline news
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• Cap Notes: Bulls, Nuggets, Harden, Minott, MLEs
When the Bulls traded Lonzo Ball for Isaac Okoro earlier this month, they had to use a portion of their existing Zach LaVine traded player exception worth $17MM+ to absorb Okoro’s $11MM salary, tweets Keith Smith of Spotrac. Chicago couldn’t simply use Ball’s $10MM outgoing salary for matching purposes due to an injury protection clause […]...2025Continue with Lonzo Ball
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• Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson On Jaylon Tyson: ‘He’s Like A 10-Year Vet’There are things Jaylon Tyson offers that the Cavaliers will really need. Energy. Offense. Intensity. Ball-handling in a pinch. And with Isaac Okoro sent to Chicago in the Lonzo Ball trade, the Cavs will likely need Tyson more than ever. He is in line for Okoro’s minutes and coach Kenny Atkinson sounded as if the Cavs […] The post Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson On Jaylon Tyson: ‘He’s Like A 10-Ye...2025Continue with Jaylon Tyson latest news
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• Cavs Announce Lonzo Ball Trade, Express Excitement Over His ‘Skillset’ And ‘Versatility’We already knew it was coming, and now it’s official. The Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired point guard Lonzo Ball from the Chicago Bulls for wing Isaac Okoro, Cavs president of basketball operations Koby Altman announced in a statement. “We are very excited about this opportunity to acquire someone with the skillset and versatility that Lonzo […] The post Cavs Announce Lonzo Ball Trad...2025Read about Cleveland Cavaliers breaking news
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• Cap Notes: Bulls, Nuggets, Harden, Minott, MLEs
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• Bulls Trading Lonzo Ball To Cavaliers For Isaac OkoroThe Bulls are trading Lonzo Ball to the Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania (Twitter link). Ball, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, spent the past four seasons in Chicago. However, due to multiple knee injuries, spent the better part of that time recovering. He missed the entirety […]...2025See more Lonzo Ball injury report
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• Bulls reportedly dealing Lonzo Ball to Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro
Ball played 35 games this past season after missing 2 1/2 seasons due to various knee injuries....2025See more Lonzo Ball injury update
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• Should the Warriors, Celtics, Cavs and Nuggets blow it up? Or continue to build?Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images. Graphic by Anton Tabuena Let’s chart the biggest issues and likely next steps for the NBA teams that faced an early exit in the 2025 Playoffs. The last three teams to win NBA championships have all been eliminated early in the 2025 Playoffs. Joining them is a top-seeded title favorite, who despite their improvements and massive spending, only managed one w...2025Visit the page Boston Celtics injury status
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• There are no easy solutions for the Cavs’ NBA Playoffs problemsPhoto by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The Cavs’ latest second round loss in NBA Playoffs brings a new set of questions Patience is not fun, at all. We demand harvest from our efforts, immediate earnings for our time well spent. If we don’t secure a bag this time around, then at least give us a pattern. Something to tell us the next time will be different. Cleveland and all if its Cavaliers mus...2025Visit the page NBA Playoffs injury report
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• Cavs’ Isaac Okoro Not Close To Returning
The Cavaliers confirmed on Tuesday (via Twitter) that forward Dean Wade has been diagnosed with a right knee bone bruise and will be out for at least the next two weeks, as Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com reported earlier. According to Fedor (subscription required), it’s possible another Cavs forward Isaac Okoro, will face a similar injury […]...2025See also Dean Wade injury status
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• Cavs’ Isaac Okoro Doesn’t Appear Close To ReturnIn the event the Dean Wade injury wasn’t enough, the Cavaliers have also been missing Isaac Okoro and Caris LeVert. Cleveland confirmed Tuesday that Wade has been diagnosed with a right knee bone bruise, and will be out for at least the next two weeks. And it’s quite possible that Okoro could face a similar […] The post Cavs’ Isaac Okoro Doesn’t Appear Close To Return...2025Click for news about Dean Wade availability report
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• Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson Offers Updates On Dean Wade, Caris LeVert, Isaac OkoroCLEVELAND — The Cavaliers have suddenly found themselves dealing with the dreaded injury bug, a problem that’s striking just about every team in the NBA this time of year. Heading into Monday’s matchup with the Detroit Pistons, the Cavs were again without three key contributors: Dean Wade (knee), Caris LeVert (wrist), and Isaac Okoro (wrist). […] The post Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson Off...2025See also Detroit Pistons injury update
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• Cavs Lose Isaac Okoro Just As Max Strus Seemingly Nears Season DebutThe Cavaliers are now facing the unfortunate news that Isaac Okoro will be sidelined for at least two weeks due to a sprained AC joint in his right shoulder. The injury happened in the third quarter of Monday’s dominant win over Brooklyn, a game where the Cavs crushed the Nets by 29 points. Okoro, who […] The post Cavs Lose Isaac Okoro Just As Max Strus Seemingly Nears Season Debut appeared ...2024
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• Cavs’ Sam Merrill Day-to-Day; No Updates On Isaac Okoro, Dean WadeWhen you stand at 15-0, everyone wants to know your business. And business is indeed booming for the Cavaliers. In fact, right now, about the only thing that could potentially slow these Cavs, it seems, is the injury report. Basically, it’s been a bad time for ankles in Cleveland. As you know, Max Strus suffered […] The post Cavs’ Sam Merrill Day-to-Day; No Updates On Isaac Okoro...2024Read about Dean Wade injury
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"The Chicago Bulls are trading Lonzo Ball to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania." - 2024
"The Cavaliers will be without forward Isaac Okoro for several weeks after he suffered a sprained right shoulder." - 2023
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"Cavaliers forward Isaac Okoro could miss three weeks with a sprained left elbow suffered in Sunday's win over Indiana." - 2021
"Cavaliers wing Isaac Okoro dunks on three Rockets (video)" - 2020
"Auburn's Isaac Okoro is among the biggest risers in our updated rankings of NBA Draft prospects" - 2019
"TCU commit PJ Fuller and his Findlay Prep Pilots battled hard, but McEachern, led by Sharife Cooper and Isaac Okoro, was too much to handle." - 2018
"Five-star junior guard Sharife Cooper and four-star senior forward Isaac Okoro combined for 33 points on Monday against Miami Christian (FL), as McEachern (GA) won their opening game in South Florida, 71-48."
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• Why Cavs-Bulls Trade Of Isaac Okoro And Lonzo Ball Required A Special Exception
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• Cap Notes: Bulls, Nuggets, Harden, Minott, MLEs
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• Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson On Jaylon Tyson: ‘He’s Like A 10-Year Vet’
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• Ty Jerome Says Cavaliers Never Offered Him Opportunity To Return
Ty Jerome is leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jerome is signing a three-year, $27.6 million deal with the Grizzlies. On social media, Jerome said he was never offered an opportunity to return to the Cavaliers, who traded Isaac Okoro to the Chicago Bulls for Lonzo Ball. Ty Jerome says that the Cavs […] The post Ty Jerome Says Cavaliers Never Offered...2025Click for news about Cleveland Cavaliers salary rumors
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• NBA free agent live tracker: Every deal and trade of 2025 summer in one spotPhoto by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Let’s keep track of every move of 2025 NBA free agency. It feels like only yesterday that the Oklahoma City Thunder were crowned 2025 NBA champions, but the offseason flurry already has the basketball world moving on to next year. The 2025 NBA Draft has come and gone with instant grades, winners and losers, and a way-too-early 2026 mock draft. Now it’s...2025Click for news about Oklahoma City Thunder salary rumors
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• Hornets, Grizzlies Interested In Ty JeromeThe Charlotte Hornets and Memphis Grizzlies are expressing interest in signing free agent guard Ty Jerome of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Jerome is looking for a deal that will start around the Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception amount of $14.1 million. Jerome's future with the Cavs seemed sealed when Cleveland acquired Lonzo Ball for Isaac Okoro in a trade with the Chicago Bulls. The Cavaliers also agr...2025Check it out Charlotte Hornets contract
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• Cavaliers' risky trade for Bulls' Lonzo Ball could be worth the rewardThe Bulls traded veteran guard Lonzo Ball to the Cavaliers in exchange for forward Isaac Okoro on Saturday....2025Visit the page Lonzo Ball salary
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• Cavs To Bring Back Sam Merrill On Four-Year ContractWhile the Cleveland Cavaliers are losing Isaac Okoro in the trade with the Chicago Bulls for Lonzo Ball, and could lose Ty Jerome as a free agent, they are keeping Sam Merrill. Like Jerome, Merrill is an unrestricted free agent, able to sign with any team and not allowing the Cavs an opportunity to match. […] The post Cavs To Bring Back Sam Merrill On Four-Year Contract appeared first on Hoo...2025Click for news about Cleveland Cavaliers salary
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• Cavs Pursued Lonzo Ball For Months, Inquired With Bulls At Trade DeadlineIt appears the Cleveland Cavaliers got exactly what they wanted when they traded for Lonzo Ball, sending Isaac Okoro to the Chicago Bulls in the process. According to Shams Charania of ESPN, Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman “have targeted Ball for months,” contacting the Bulls at the trade deadline in early February. Cleveland […] The post Cavs Pursued Lon...2025See also Cleveland Cavaliers trade rumors
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• Cavs’ Trade For Lonzo Ball Potentially Signals End Of Ty Jerome EraIt was a great regular season, but Ty Jerome‘s run with the Cleveland Cavaliers may have reached its end. That’s because the Cavs agreed to a trade for point guard Lonzo Ball, sending wing Isaac Okoro to the Chicago Bulls. Meanwhile, Jerome is an unrestricted free agent, able to sign with any team and not […] The post Cavs’ Trade For Lonzo Ball Potentially Signals End Of Ty...2025See also Cleveland Cavaliers salary rumors
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• Bulls Notes: Okoro, Dosunmu, Essengue, Ball
Isaac Okoro, who will be acquired from Cleveland in a trade for Lonzo Ball, is the type of player Bulls general manager Marc Eversley said he’s looking to build the team around during a meeting with reporters earlier this week, writes Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times. Okoro had mixed results during his five seasons […]...2025See also Lonzo Ball
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• Bulls Trade Lonzo Ball To Cavaliers For Isaac OkoroThe Chicago Bulls are trading point guard Lonzo Ball to the Cleveland Cavaliers for wing Isaac Okoro. The Bulls are moving some guard depth to rebalance their roster a bit, while the Cavs get insurance against potentially losing Ty Jerome in free agency. Ball made an impressive recovery to get back from missing parts of four seasons due to multiple knee surgeries. He appeared in 35 games for Chica...2025See also Chicago Bulls scores
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• Report: Cavaliers Having Trouble Trading Isaac Okoro
According to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com, the Cleveland Cavaliers are having trouble trading Isaac Okoro. Okoro will make $11 million next season. He averaged 6.1 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists this season in 55 games while shooting 46.4% from the field, 37.1% from beyond the arc and 71.7% from the free-throw line. “From everything […] The post Report: Cavaliers Having Tro...2025See more Chris Fedor
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• Should the Warriors, Celtics, Cavs and Nuggets blow it up? Or continue to build?
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• There are no easy solutions for the Cavs’ NBA Playoffs problems
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• Cavs Lose Isaac Okoro Just As Max Strus Seemingly Nears Season Debut
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• 5 NBA teams beating expectations so farPhoto by Harry How/Getty Images These teams are cooking coming out of the gates. It’s important to be skeptical of small sample sizes early in a new NBA season. The league’s eternal 82-game grind leaves plenty of time to make up ground in the standings, or waste a hot start. At the same time, trends start stabilizing around the 20-game mark of the season, or about a quarter of the way thro...2024See also Cleveland Cavaliers scores
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• NBA’s longest undefeated starts ever, now including Cleveland Cavaliers’ 10-0 markPhoto by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Cavs are forcing their way into NBA history with their undefeated start to the season. LeBron James is long gone, but the Cleveland Cavaliers are once again looking like an NBA championship contender. The Cavs moved to 10-0 on the young season after blasting the Golden State Warriors on Friday night in a showdown of former rivals who have reinvented t...2024Click for news about Cleveland Cavaliers statistics
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• Predicting one breakout player for each NBA team in 2024: Eastern Conference EditionPhoto by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images The start of the NBA season is here, so let’s predict one breakout player from each Eastern Conference team ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. Editor’s Note: This is the Eastern Conference edition of our series on breakout player candidates for each NBA team in the 2024-25 season. The Western Conference edition can be read here. Every year, each t...2024Check it out Eastern Conference scores
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• Isaac Okoro’s Struggles In Playoffs For Cavaliers ‘Hasn’t Helped His Negotiating Position’Cleveland Cavaliers wing Isaac Okoro is still a restricted NBA free agent and his struggles in the playoffs may be a reason he’s still on the market. “While he gave his team 9.4 points a game on 39.1 percent shooting over the regular season, he struggled in the playoffs at 5.5 and 25.7 percent, which […] The post Isaac Okoro’s Struggles In Playoffs For Cavaliers ̵...2024Click for news about Cleveland Cavaliers statistics
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• There are no easy solutions for the Cavs’ NBA Playoffs problems
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• Predicting one breakout player for each NBA team in 2024: Eastern Conference Edition
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• The Cavs and Clippers both face huge, similar questions in the NBA playoffsArt via Thilo Latrell Widder, original photos via Getty Images The Cavaliers and Clippers, more alike than you may realize, face similar questions as they enter the NBA playoffs. Before we go anywhere else, I am not comparing Jarrett Allen and Michael Olowakandi, nor Cavaliers Shawn Kemp to Clippers James Harden, but there’s something to be said about how similar the Cavs and Clippers hav...2024Visit the page Jarrett Allen
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• Meet the 2024 McDonald’s All-Americans, starring Cooper Flagg in a loaded classPhoto by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s meet this year’s talented class at the boys 2024 McDonald’s All-American Game. Competing in the McDonald’s All-American Game is a right of passage for the basketball stars of the future. While the game itself often takes on the feel of an All-Star Game as an exhibition meant to excite the fans, the practices and scrimmage leadi...2024Click for news about Cooper Flagg
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• Tyrese Haliburton became NBA’s point guard of the future by mastering its pastPhoto by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Tyrese Haliburton is melding the past and present of point guard play to emerge as a new kind of NBA superstar. The fabled idea of the ‘true point guard’ has been under attack in today’s NBA. The traditional floor general as epitomized by the lineage of Isiah Thomas to John Stockton to Steve Nash to Chris Paul met its maker in the throes of the league’s th...2023Visit the page Tyrese Haliburton
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• NBA Scores: Wild ending in Brooklyn pushes Cavs closer to clinching playoff spot
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Plus: Has the Magic run out for the Knicks? While everyone else was watching the first night of Sweet 16 action in the Men’s NCAA Tournament, I was watching... well, I, too, was watching the Men’s NCAA Tournament. But thank goodness for iPads, right? That’s how I streamed Thursday’s NBA action, four games that not only all had the potential to be tight — a...2023See more articles NCAA Tournament
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• 2020 NBA Draft: Cavaliers' Isaac Okoro surprises his parents with a Range Rover shortly after getting picked
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• Sources: Bulls trading Ball to Cavs for Okoro
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• Cavs lose defensive ace Okoro for several weeks
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• 2020 NBA Draft Prospect Rankings: Biggest risers and fallers in latest update of top 75 on Big Board
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• Cavs Rumors: Small Forward, Reddish, Hart, G. Williams, LeVert, Love
Although the Cavaliers remain on the lookout for an upgrade on the wing, there’s a “growing sense” that they don’t love the options available to them on the trade market and would be comfortable standing pat if no deal comes to fruition, writes Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com (subscriber link). Isaac Okoro has been impressive since […]...2023See more Chris Fedor
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• Dribbles: Cavs use total team effort to frustrate Jokic, dominate defending champsCLEVELAND — Random dribbles from the Cavaliers’ impressive 121-109 home over the Nuggets on Sunday. 1. You’re facing the defending NBA champions. You don’t have Donovan Mitchell, Caris LeVert or (again) Isaac Okoro and Ty Jerome. And you run the Nuggets out of the building, anyway. 2. That’s what you call a successful Sunday evening. […] The post Dribbles: Cavs ...2023Read about Donovan Mitchell
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• Bulls trading Lonzo Ball to Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro, per reportThe Cavs are adding another point guard to the roster...2025Visit the page Lonzo Ball
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• Cavs Assign Donovan Mitchell, Isaac Okoro to G LeagueCLEVELAND — Don’t worry, Donovan Mitchell and Isaac Okoro aren’t leaving the Cavaliers for the Cleveland Charge. But they were assigned to the G League club on Wednesday for the sake of injury rehab and perhaps a little conditioning. Mitchell has missed the past three games with an injured hamstring, suffered in a win at […] The post Cavs Assign Donovan Mitchell, Isaac Okor...2023Visit the page Donovan Mitchell
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• Bulls reportedly dealing Lonzo Ball to Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro
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• Lonzo Ball trade grades: Cavaliers ace deal for veteran guard; Bulls agree to another questionable player swapCleveland makes its first tweak after a disappointing playoff exit by sending Isaac Okoro to Chicago...2025Click for news about Lonzo Ball
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• Should the Warriors, Celtics, Cavs and Nuggets blow it up? Or continue to build?
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• There are no easy solutions for the Cavs’ NBA Playoffs problems
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• Central Notes: Allen, Okoro, Ball, Budenholzer, Williams
With the playoffs approaching, Jarrett Allen and Isaac Okoro are playing at a peak level for the Cavaliers. Allen is shooting 77.8 percent from the field over the last six games, while Okoro has impacted recent games with his hustle plays and defense, Joe Vardon of The Athletic notes. Allen, who has appeared in every […]...2025See also Jarrett Allen
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• Cavs’ Kenny Atkinson Offers Updates On Dean Wade, Caris LeVert, Isaac Okoro
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• Cavs’ Evan Mobley, Isaac Okoro Out Again vs. SunsThe Cavaliers will once again be without starter Evan Mobley and key contributor Isaac Okoro for Monday’s matchup against the visiting Phoenix Suns (3:30 p.m. EST). This will mark the second consecutive game that both have been sidelined. Mobley, who’s nursing a right calf strain, has not played since the Cavs’ disappointing loss to the […] The post Cavs’ Evan Mobley, Isaac Okoro...2025Continue with Evan Mobley
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• NBA Rumors: Cavs, Isaac Okoro, Hawks, Trae Young, Knicks, Mikal Bridges
Cavaliers While the rumor mill is buzzing, the Cavaliers’ are likely to keep their core together unloess they get an offer that sweeps them off their feet, one opposing scout told Hoops Wire. “I can’t see them just throwing away a (64-18) season,” the scout said. “It was their first year under (Kenny Atkinson). De’Andre […] The post NBA Rumors: Cavs, Isaac...2025Click for news about Mikal Bridges rumors
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• Should the Warriors, Celtics, Cavs and Nuggets blow it up? Or continue to build?
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• The Cavs and Clippers both face huge, similar questions in the NBA playoffs
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• 8 NBA Playoffs overreactions from start of every first round series
Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images Let’s overreact to the start of every series in the 2023 NBA Playoffs. NBA Playoffs series are not strictly determined by the first game, but teams that win Game 1 historically have a huge edge in advancing. In 2018, the NBA put out data that said teams that win the first game of a best-of-seven series win the series 76.6 percent of the time. In the firs...2023See more NBA Playoffs buzz
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